Little is known about the personality of Johannes Vermeer, one of the most famous Dutch painters of the 17th century. We do know that he married the Catholic Catharina Bolnes, whose family was closely associated with the Jesuit community in Delft.

In this book, Gregor J.M. Weber, head of visual arts at the Rijksmuseum, shows that Vermeer himself actually pursued a Catholic lifestyle. The relationship between the artistic ambitions of the young Vermeer and his Catholic surroundings is also dis...

Dit is de eerste monografie over beeldend kunstenaar Tirzo Martha (Willemstad, Curacao 1965). Deze omvangrijke publicatie omvat een intrigerende compilatie van zijn kunstwerken, performances en installaties. Martha wordt gedreven door een diep engagement met de wereld om hem heen, in het bijzonder met Curaçao en het Caribische Gebied. Zijn werk is veelzijdig, kritisch, politiek en maatschappelijk geladen. Het oeuvre van Martha omvat beelden, installaties, assemblages, video's en performances...

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Simone Albers (1990, NL)is gefascineerd door de kosmos. Zij onderzoekt de mechanismen die verborgen liggen achter de direct waarneembare wereld. De complexiteit ervan verbeeldt Albers in kleurrijke landschappen; met meanderende vormen en draaikolken van DNA-moleculen, sterrenstelsels en zwarte gaten voert Albers ons mee in een kosmische stroom.

In 'Myriad Ways of Being ~ Being of Myriad Ways' belichten auteurs Loes van Beuningen, Susan Peeters, Sabine Winters, en Wout...

Sculpture as a specific medium is rarely investigated within a deeply cultural, philosophical context, nor within visual art itself. Whilst discussions about installation art, performance art, or other 3D art forms are widespread, the discourse on sculpture seems to be stuck in historical, material, or thematic frameworks. This is a loss for our understanding of art in general, and of sculpture in particular. In order to assess contemporary art practices, one should have a better understandin...

‘100MJ’ concerns an intuitive and personal drawing project about identity by Dutch artist Bas Kosters. The book shows a series of a hundred full page drawings based on the image of Michael Jackson. It is about how people are shaped trough the eyes of others, the reach of recognizability and identity. It plays with the ideas about visual culture and recognizability. In hundred portraits drawn on ephemera Kosters shows, in a poetic manner, man in all their strength.

A magnificent introduction to the Cobra art movement

With French as its working language, Cobra was pretty much the last truly European movement within Modernism. The group’s anarchic story is not just an important strand in art history — it remains as lively as ever and has inspired all sorts of artists who were never directly involved with Cobra. The work bequeathed to us by Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, Constant, Corneille and other kindred spirits is as fascinating as ever, both raw...

Over the course of 202-2021, during the pandemic, Kara Walker has produced series of drawings in the style of a medieval 'Book of Hours'. Enigmatic images appear to traverse a range of time periods, from scenes of biblical and mythological origins, to images of historical violence, to others that suggest more recent political strife. The highly personal nature of these images capture Walker's own response to the intersection of past and present as a way to understand our contemporary politica...

Op 11 september 2001 was Keiko Sato in New York toen Amerika getroffen werd door een van de meest schokkendse terroristische aanslagen. De zelfmoordcommando's die met hun vliegtuigen de Twin Towers binnenvlogen, en uiteindelijk deze iconen van de Westerse wereld volledig ten onder lieten gaan, herinnerden Sato aan haar eigen vader, die als Japanse kamikaze piloot de Tweede Wereldoorlog overleefde.How to tell a story of my father is een bijzonder document met teksten, interviews en kunstbijdra...